Enlightenment is a word more and more frequently used in our society. For many of us who 'contemplate it', we assume that it is an endpoint. In fact, it is a doorway. Through the doorway of enlightenment we access realms of experience - and of consciousness - that we can barely dream of now. Enlightenment is the beginning of our rediscovering - who we truly are. For a brief instant, step into the energy field of enlightenment - of just Continue Reading
3 Ground Rules for Moving Anger – #3
3. Don't hurt anything else. This is my personal value system. I know that everything is consciousness. If this fits for you, own this 3rd Rule. Nature is dying, quite literally, for us to release our pent up anger, pain and sorrow. As we do, She knows we'll be refreshed. Our Vision will be clear. Our Hearts will be open. We will awaken - as if from a long dream, a nightmare - and remember that we love each other - Continue Reading
The Wright Brothers
One of my favorite stories of ‘leadership’ and of ‘change’ is of the Wright Brothers. I’m an abstract storyteller, so please forgive me if the ‘details’ of this story are not historically absolutely precise! Imagine yourself … As if you were alive, in the town where the Wright Brothers lived, when they began publicly expressing their ‘visions’ that a silver bird could fly. Ha! Most people surely mocked them, Continue Reading
4 Steps to Plenty – Part 2
It can be valuable to recognize the downward spiraling 'pull' of old beliefs and old patterns of thinking and behavior. Just like the suction that pulls water down a drain. These patterns are 'ruts', meaning that there are literally 'tracks in your brain' that pull you into the grooves of your conditioning. This is why it can seem like 'hard work' to overcome them and create new ways of thinking and of behaving which lead to new results. Continue Reading
Simple Examples of Conscious Actions – A Check List
Here is a simple primer of how to make a difference in this world … Waste less – food, paper, toilet paper, light, heat, air conditioning, fuel. Give more – love, support, wisdom, ideas. Buy consciously – fair trade (people are paid fair wages for the work that they do), organic (it doesn't pollute air, water or soil with toxins), EMF friendly (cell phone and microwave technologies are cited as confusing the navigating Continue Reading
Contribution
There is a growing malaise in our culture, as more people work longer hours with less satisfaction – and in greater isolation – doing things that they know are unhealthy and contributing mindlessly to their individual and collective frustration. This is a growing epidemic – evident in everything from obesity to addictions to violence to suicide. So many people do work that they do not love, and stay in relationships Continue Reading
Jack-in-the-Box
Have you ever tried to get a Jack-in-the-Box in the box? A Jack-in-the-Box is a cloth puppet sitting atop a tightly coiled spring. When the lid of the box is lifted, 'Jack' springs out, joyous and full of life. Getting Jack back into the box requires much strength and determination to push downward against his naturally-freedom-oriented coils. When you do finally get the coils sufficiently suppressed to force the Continue Reading
Cracking Open the Shell – Part 2
Is ‘fighting against’ the only way to access your true strength? Is it the most efficient one, the most powerful one, the most ultimately successful one? Or are there options? (There are. Look around. Not everyone fights against.) I’ll give you an example. In 1988, at the so-called ‘height’ of my dancing career (I was touring internationally with highly respected dance companies, and beginning to have high profile solos Continue Reading
Myths, Fairytales, and Humanity
Not unlike technology, myths and fairytales are traces from our past, retained and played out in stories which we call fantasy. (See also “Technology and Humanity” and “Telepathy and Humanity”.) Joseph Campbellhas pioneered the journey into myth. Carl Jungdelved deep into dream interpretation. We still think of fairytales as fantasy, science fiction as imaginative thinking. Though grains of memory may be embellished and Continue Reading